Al-Bustan Music presents: Arab & Latin Rhythms featuring Rolando Morales-Matos

Join virtuoso percussionist ROLANDO MORALES-MATOS and Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble for an evening of music that explores the rhythms of the Latin American & Arab worlds. Their own master percussionist and teaching artist HAFEZ KOTAIN will lead this percussive conversation that crosses cultures and continents.

As part of his residency, Mr. Morales-Matos will lead a workshop at Moffet Elementary in Kensington. The Moffet Elementary drummers will open the culminating performance Trinity Center for Urban Life in Center City Philadelphia.

Rolando Morales-Matos was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and began his musical training at the prestigious Escuela Libre de Musica. He received his B.F.A in music from Carnegie Mellon University, his M.A. from Duquesne University, and a Certificate of Professional Studies from Temple University.

Rolando is a percussionist and assistant conductor with Disney’s Lion King and performs and records regularly in New York City with various Latin jazz groups and chamber orchestras. He has recorded film soundtracks and is a member of Ron Carter Foursight Jazz Quartet, an extra percussionist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Mr. Morales-Matos teaches at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City.